Re: Shuffle

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Date	Sun, 14 Sep 2014 10:28:53 +1000
Subject	Re: Shuffle
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On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Seymore4Head
<Seymore4Head@hotmail.invalid> wrote:
> Two questions
> If you import random, do you need to "from random import shuffle"?
>
> Why does shuffle work from the command line and not when I add it to
> this program?
>
> import random
> import shuffle

To understand this, you need to understand what the 'from' import does:

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/modules.html#more-on-modules

It's not the same as "import shuffle", but is a variant of "import random".

ChrisA

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  Re: Shuffle Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-14 10:28 +1000
  Re: Shuffle Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-09-13 19:32 -0600
    Re: Shuffle Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-09-13 22:10 -0400
  Re: Shuffle Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-09-15 09:32 -0400
    Re: Shuffle Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-16 00:02 +1000
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